Word: cement
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Frank Sinatra returns to the big screen after a decade's absence, but it is as if he had never been away. He spent the last years of the '60s making a trio of police dramas (Tony Rome, The Detective, Lady in Cement), and here he is, at 64, back in the N.Y.P.D. to solve one last crime before retirement. A whitecollar, black-leather maniac named Blank (David Dukes) is on the loose in Manhattan with an ice ax and too much spare time. Because the murders have been committed in different parts of town, the harried police...
...poor third-quarter company reports were centered primarily in some of America's oldest industries. Data Resources estimated that steel companies' earnings fell 96%. U.S. Steel profits were down 12.7%, and the company would have lost money except for the sale of $77.8 million worth of its cement division and some real estate. Bethlehem Steel lost $32.3 million in the third quarter, as contrasted with a $74.8 million profit during the same period a year ago. Chemical giant Du Pont reported an earnings decline of 61%. Since the housing industry had been especially hard hit by high interest...
...student said yesterday, "There is still a lot of healing to be done and a lot of rifts to cement...
...developer to quickly draw the plans, allowing community input into the actual design process. Once that is accomplished, the Planning Board should recognize that the agreement signed last week represents the will of the neighbors and acquiesce. And then everyone should step back and let the cranes and cement mixers roll in--even people who have not signed the agreement should honor the compromise it represents and not challenge the new plans...
...certainly feels something's being covered up. A bomb creating major damage on a Buenos Aires street last fall went unmentioned in the government-run media. In another attempt at pretense, the government has inadequately covered with cement several thousand machine gun holes in buildings where hundreds of rioting leftist students were massacred...